diff --git a/vendor.mod b/vendor.mod
index 84e1f5a37df43..a1f8664e7d75d 100644
--- a/vendor.mod
+++ b/vendor.mod
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/morikuni/aec v1.0.0
 	github.com/opencontainers/go-digest v1.0.0
 	github.com/opencontainers/image-spec v1.1.0-rc3
-	github.com/opencontainers/runc v1.1.11
+	github.com/opencontainers/runc v1.1.12
 	github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec v1.1.0-rc.2
 	github.com/opencontainers/selinux v1.11.0
 	github.com/pelletier/go-toml v1.9.5
diff --git a/vendor.sum b/vendor.sum
index 681e48c1a59f5..11d3aa6860f27 100644
--- a/vendor.sum
+++ b/vendor.sum
@@ -1147,8 +1147,8 @@ github.com/opencontainers/runc v1.0.0-rc9/go.mod h1:qT5XzbpPznkRYVz/mWwUaVBUv2rm
 github.com/opencontainers/runc v1.0.0-rc92/go.mod h1:X1zlU4p7wOlX4+WRCz+hvlRv8phdL7UqbYD+vQwNMmE=
 github.com/opencontainers/runc v1.0.0-rc93/go.mod h1:3NOsor4w32B2tC0Zbl8Knk4Wg84SM2ImC1fxBuqJ/H0=
 github.com/opencontainers/runc v1.0.2/go.mod h1:aTaHFFwQXuA71CiyxOdFFIorAoemI04suvGRQFzWTD0=
-github.com/opencontainers/runc v1.1.11 h1:9LjxyVlE0BPMRP2wuQDRlHV4941Jp9rc3F0+YKimopA=
-github.com/opencontainers/runc v1.1.11/go.mod h1:S+lQwSfncpBha7XTy/5lBwWgm5+y5Ma/O44Ekby9FK8=
+github.com/opencontainers/runc v1.1.12 h1:BOIssBaW1La0/qbNZHXOOa71dZfZEQOzW7dqQf3phss=
+github.com/opencontainers/runc v1.1.12/go.mod h1:S+lQwSfncpBha7XTy/5lBwWgm5+y5Ma/O44Ekby9FK8=
 github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec v0.1.2-0.20190507144316-5b71a03e2700/go.mod h1:jwyrGlmzljRJv/Fgzds9SsS/C5hL+LL3ko9hs6T5lQ0=
 github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec v1.0.1/go.mod h1:jwyrGlmzljRJv/Fgzds9SsS/C5hL+LL3ko9hs6T5lQ0=
 github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec v1.0.2-0.20190207185410-29686dbc5559/go.mod h1:jwyrGlmzljRJv/Fgzds9SsS/C5hL+LL3ko9hs6T5lQ0=
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/cgroups/file.go b/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/cgroups/file.go
index 48b263a1661e4..f6e1b73bd9215 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/cgroups/file.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/cgroups/file.go
@@ -77,16 +77,16 @@ var (
 	// TestMode is set to true by unit tests that need "fake" cgroupfs.
 	TestMode bool
 
-	cgroupFd     int = -1
-	prepOnce     sync.Once
-	prepErr      error
-	resolveFlags uint64
+	cgroupRootHandle *os.File
+	prepOnce         sync.Once
+	prepErr          error
+	resolveFlags     uint64
 )
 
 func prepareOpenat2() error {
 	prepOnce.Do(func() {
 		fd, err := unix.Openat2(-1, cgroupfsDir, &unix.OpenHow{
-			Flags: unix.O_DIRECTORY | unix.O_PATH,
+			Flags: unix.O_DIRECTORY | unix.O_PATH | unix.O_CLOEXEC,
 		})
 		if err != nil {
 			prepErr = &os.PathError{Op: "openat2", Path: cgroupfsDir, Err: err}
@@ -97,15 +97,16 @@ func prepareOpenat2() error {
 			}
 			return
 		}
+		file := os.NewFile(uintptr(fd), cgroupfsDir)
+
 		var st unix.Statfs_t
-		if err = unix.Fstatfs(fd, &st); err != nil {
+		if err := unix.Fstatfs(int(file.Fd()), &st); err != nil {
 			prepErr = &os.PathError{Op: "statfs", Path: cgroupfsDir, Err: err}
 			logrus.Warnf("falling back to securejoin: %s", prepErr)
 			return
 		}
 
-		cgroupFd = fd
-
+		cgroupRootHandle = file
 		resolveFlags = unix.RESOLVE_BENEATH | unix.RESOLVE_NO_MAGICLINKS
 		if st.Type == unix.CGROUP2_SUPER_MAGIC {
 			// cgroupv2 has a single mountpoint and no "cpu,cpuacct" symlinks
@@ -132,7 +133,7 @@ func openFile(dir, file string, flags int) (*os.File, error) {
 		return openFallback(path, flags, mode)
 	}
 
-	fd, err := unix.Openat2(cgroupFd, relPath,
+	fd, err := unix.Openat2(int(cgroupRootHandle.Fd()), relPath,
 		&unix.OpenHow{
 			Resolve: resolveFlags,
 			Flags:   uint64(flags) | unix.O_CLOEXEC,
@@ -140,20 +141,20 @@ func openFile(dir, file string, flags int) (*os.File, error) {
 		})
 	if err != nil {
 		err = &os.PathError{Op: "openat2", Path: path, Err: err}
-		// Check if cgroupFd is still opened to cgroupfsDir
+		// Check if cgroupRootHandle is still opened to cgroupfsDir
 		// (happens when this package is incorrectly used
 		// across the chroot/pivot_root/mntns boundary, or
 		// when /sys/fs/cgroup is remounted).
 		//
 		// TODO: if such usage will ever be common, amend this
-		// to reopen cgroupFd and retry openat2.
-		fdStr := strconv.Itoa(cgroupFd)
+		// to reopen cgroupRootHandle and retry openat2.
+		fdStr := strconv.Itoa(int(cgroupRootHandle.Fd()))
 		fdDest, _ := os.Readlink("/proc/self/fd/" + fdStr)
 		if fdDest != cgroupfsDir {
-			// Wrap the error so it is clear that cgroupFd
+			// Wrap the error so it is clear that cgroupRootHandle
 			// is opened to an unexpected/wrong directory.
-			err = fmt.Errorf("cgroupFd %s unexpectedly opened to %s != %s: %w",
-				fdStr, fdDest, cgroupfsDir, err)
+			err = fmt.Errorf("cgroupRootHandle %d unexpectedly opened to %s != %s: %w",
+				cgroupRootHandle.Fd(), fdDest, cgroupfsDir, err)
 		}
 		return nil, err
 	}
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/utils/utils_unix.go b/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/utils/utils_unix.go
index 220d0b4393798..bf3237a29118d 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/utils/utils_unix.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/utils/utils_unix.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"strconv"
+	_ "unsafe" // for go:linkname
 
 	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
 )
@@ -23,9 +24,11 @@ func EnsureProcHandle(fh *os.File) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-// CloseExecFrom applies O_CLOEXEC to all file descriptors currently open for
-// the process (except for those below the given fd value).
-func CloseExecFrom(minFd int) error {
+type fdFunc func(fd int)
+
+// fdRangeFrom calls the passed fdFunc for each file descriptor that is open in
+// the current process.
+func fdRangeFrom(minFd int, fn fdFunc) error {
 	fdDir, err := os.Open("/proc/self/fd")
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -50,15 +53,60 @@ func CloseExecFrom(minFd int) error {
 		if fd < minFd {
 			continue
 		}
-		// Intentionally ignore errors from unix.CloseOnExec -- the cases where
-		// this might fail are basically file descriptors that have already
-		// been closed (including and especially the one that was created when
-		// os.ReadDir did the "opendir" syscall).
-		unix.CloseOnExec(fd)
+		// Ignore the file descriptor we used for readdir, as it will be closed
+		// when we return.
+		if uintptr(fd) == fdDir.Fd() {
+			continue
+		}
+		// Run the closure.
+		fn(fd)
 	}
 	return nil
 }
 
+// CloseExecFrom sets the O_CLOEXEC flag on all file descriptors greater or
+// equal to minFd in the current process.
+func CloseExecFrom(minFd int) error {
+	return fdRangeFrom(minFd, unix.CloseOnExec)
+}
+
+//go:linkname runtime_IsPollDescriptor internal/poll.IsPollDescriptor
+
+// In order to make sure we do not close the internal epoll descriptors the Go
+// runtime uses, we need to ensure that we skip descriptors that match
+// "internal/poll".IsPollDescriptor. Yes, this is a Go runtime internal thing,
+// unfortunately there's no other way to be sure we're only keeping the file
+// descriptors the Go runtime needs. Hopefully nothing blows up doing this...
+func runtime_IsPollDescriptor(fd uintptr) bool //nolint:revive
+
+// UnsafeCloseFrom closes all file descriptors greater or equal to minFd in the
+// current process, except for those critical to Go's runtime (such as the
+// netpoll management descriptors).
+//
+// NOTE: That this function is incredibly dangerous to use in most Go code, as
+// closing file descriptors from underneath *os.File handles can lead to very
+// bad behaviour (the closed file descriptor can be re-used and then any
+// *os.File operations would apply to the wrong file). This function is only
+// intended to be called from the last stage of runc init.
+func UnsafeCloseFrom(minFd int) error {
+	// We must not close some file descriptors.
+	return fdRangeFrom(minFd, func(fd int) {
+		if runtime_IsPollDescriptor(uintptr(fd)) {
+			// These are the Go runtimes internal netpoll file descriptors.
+			// These file descriptors are operated on deep in the Go scheduler,
+			// and closing those files from underneath Go can result in panics.
+			// There is no issue with keeping them because they are not
+			// executable and are not useful to an attacker anyway. Also we
+			// don't have any choice.
+			return
+		}
+		// There's nothing we can do about errors from close(2), and the
+		// only likely error to be seen is EBADF which indicates the fd was
+		// already closed (in which case, we got what we wanted).
+		_ = unix.Close(fd)
+	})
+}
+
 // NewSockPair returns a new unix socket pair
 func NewSockPair(name string) (parent *os.File, child *os.File, err error) {
 	fds, err := unix.Socketpair(unix.AF_LOCAL, unix.SOCK_STREAM|unix.SOCK_CLOEXEC, 0)
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index bf5933a015e83..dd3fb54fefd2d 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ github.com/opencontainers/go-digest/digestset
 github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/identity
 github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/specs-go
 github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/specs-go/v1
-# github.com/opencontainers/runc v1.1.11
+# github.com/opencontainers/runc v1.1.12
 ## explicit; go 1.17
 github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/cgroups
 github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/configs